Fashion

Inspiration for Change

Amy Twigger Holroyd, Nottingham Trent University, UK, Jennifer Farley Gordon, Iowa State University, USA & Colleen Hill, The Museum at FIT, USA Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion reminds us that concerns about workers’ rights and chemical pollution in the fashion industry have been with us since the early 19th century. By placing today's sustainable fashion movement in its historical context, this book encourages contemporary designers to learn from past failures and build on their predecessors' successes. Includes new international examples from each stage of the fashion production cycle, this revised edition includes new chapters outlining the different fashion systems and the role of the consumer.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 192 pages • 100 bw illus PB 9781350160439 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350160446 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350160477 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350160453 • £22.49 / $31.59 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Selling Europe to the World

The Rise of the Luxury Fashion Industry, 1980-2020

Pierre-Yves Donzé, Osaka University, Japan Selling Europe to the World is the first book to explain how and why European companies have dominated the global luxury industry since the 1980s. It highlights the strategies implemented by a new generation of entrepreneurs and explains, beyond the glamorous image conveyed by luxury brands, the sources of success of these firms. An essential book for understanding the success of the contemporary luxury industry.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 176 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781350335783 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350335776 • £65.00 / ePub 9781350335806 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350335790 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Visual Arts World English Drawing and Rendering the Male Fashion Figure

Lamont O'Neal, Parsons School of Design, USA; FIT, USA; and Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, USA With over 300 color examples, illustrator and educator Lamont O'Neal uses a mixture of watercolor, marker, pencil and digital tools to help you master fundamentals such as anatomy and proportion. Later chapters focus on garment drawing, the principles of balance and movement as well classic poses and how they can highlight a design. There's also a guide to the history of menswear illustration, discussion of developing your own individual style, making this the ultimate guide to drawing and rendering the male fashion figure.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 304 pages • 340 color illus PB 9781350125469 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350125476 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350125490 • £26.09 / $37.08 ePdf 9781350125483 • £26.09 / $37.08 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

A New History of 'Made in Italy'

Fashion and Textiles in Post-War Italy

Lucia Savi, The Design Museum, UK The first book to chronicle the vital role of textile manufacturing in Italian fashion, A New History of 'Made in Italy' investigates Italy's transition from a country of dressmakers, tailors and small-scale couturiers in the late 1940s to an internationally admired producer of ready-to-wear fashion in the 1980s. Informed by extensive archival materials retrieved from a wide range of sources, it brings together the often-separated disciplines of fashion, textile and design history to reveal how things were made, by whom, and where.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 224 pages • 34 bw and colour illus HB 9781350247758 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350247772 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350247765 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Picturing the Woman-Child

Fashion, Feminism and the Female Gaze

Morna Laing, Parsons Paris, France The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir. Exploring the ways in which this model has cemented inequality between the sexes, Picturing the WomanChild interrogates the centrality of childlike women in the Western fashion media from 1990 and 2015, despite successive waves of feminism.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 320 pages • 60 bw illus PB 9781350214385 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350059580 ePub 9781350059603 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350059610 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Images on the Page

A Fashion Iconography

Sanda Miller, Southampton Solent University, UK Fashion imagery has existed for centuries and yet methods used by scholars to understand it have remained mostly historical and descriptive. One belief informing these approaches is that fashion imagery is designed for the sole purposes of depicting garments and demonstrating how to wear them. In this interdisciplinary book, Sanda Miller suggests a radical alternative: an iconography of fashion imagery, inspired by the key theory from the history of art and used to uncover fashion’s multi-layered meanings. Miller unveils descriptive, conventional, and symbolic meanings in fashion plates, drawings, and photographs, thus shedding light on society, class, culture, and dress history.

UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 296 pages • 52 bw illus PB 9781350216921 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350115330 ePub 9781350115354 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350115347 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Fashion and Food

Adam Geczy, University of Sydney, Australia & Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture examines the relationship between food and fashion in clothing, style, and dress in all its manifestations, from the restaurant to the catwalk, to cookbooks, diet fads, slow food, fast fashion, celebrity chefs, artists, and musical performers. This much-needed book offers a substantive and incisive discussion for all those interested in the complex interrelationship between food and fashion – scholars, students, and general readers alike.

UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 264 pages • 51 bw illus PB 9781350147508 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781350147492 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350147485 • £23.39 / $32.96 ePdf 9781350147515 • £23.39 / $32.96 Series: Dress, Body, Culture • Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Male Idols and Branding in Chinese Luxury

Fashion, Cosmetics, and Popular Culture

Amanda Sikarskie, University of Michigan, USA, Lan Lan, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China & Peng Liu, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau Challenging the Western view of idols as objects of worship, this book explores the role that male idols play in fashion and cosmetics brand marketing in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; including the role of the female gaze. It examines idols in the more modern, pan-Asian sense of the word - as objects of social devotion. Through considering the subtleties of branding and marketing in China, Korea, and Japan, and the relationship of Chinese idols to fans and consumers in other Asian countries, the authors delve into brand-idol collaborations, particularly through lenses of brand image and toxic fan culture.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 272 pages • 47 bw illus HB 9781350283312 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350283329 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350283336 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars

Jane Custance Baker, Independent Scholar, UK Dress in English detective fiction was a status marker of interest to both male and female readers made anxious by social change brought about by war, and therefore a set of signs to be read, digested, and possibly employed to model the individual reader’s own dress choices. Through analysing dress in detective fiction, this book reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of 280 interwar publications by a comprehensive range of writers reveals readership’s anxieties about performance of class, gender, and race and how they changed over that period.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781350240308 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350240339 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350240322 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Rei Kawakubo

For and Against Fashion

Edited by Rex Butler, Monash University, Australia Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the most influential designers in the world. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Her work exerts extraordinary influence over generations of creatives and is a major point of reference for those exploring the role of fashion in contemporary culture. This book asks how Kawakubo’s work relates to art, philosophy and architecture, and illustrates how Kawakubo’s oeuvre can be used to understand fashion itself.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 224 pages • 16 colour and 44 bw illus HB 9781350118225 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350118249 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350118232 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Freak to Chic

"Gay" Men in and out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde

Dominic Janes, Keele University, UK In this unique intervention into the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes shows how - under the gaze of social conservatism - ‘gay’ life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the worlds of glamour, fashion, art and countercultural style provided rich opportunities for the construction of queer spectacle. Building upon the legacy of Oscar Wilde, interwar and later 20th-century men such as Cecil Beaton expressed transgressive desires in forms inspired by those labelled ‘freaks’ and, thereby, made major contributions to the histories of art, design, fashion, sexuality, and celebrity.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 312 pages • 72 bw illus PB 9781350248083 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350172609 ePub 9781350172623 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350172616 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Visual Arts